Complications: Mark II Prosthesis

Renard et al.8 found that wound infection, prosthetic loosening with subsequent removal, transient neuropraxia, fracture due to falls, proximal migration, and heterotopic bone formation around prosthesis to be their most common complications.

Cephalad Migration

Severe cephalad saddle migration 2 months after insertion8

Aboulafia et al.3 found that 9/17 patients had at least one complication (53%)

Local wound infection, dislocations, prosthetic dissociation, pathologic fracture at femoral stem, partial sciatic nerve laceration were the most common complications.

Benevenia et al.1 found complications in 3/20 patients he treated for metastatic disease.

Wound infection, dislocations, fracture-dislocations, were most common, but these rates were comparable with other studies